“Scrapping The White Elephant Is A Good Idea” | Tees Valley Mayor Backs HS2 U-Turn
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- The Prime Minister has announced the Government will support a series of transport schemes after cutting HS2 north of Birmingham.
Rishi Sunak pledged to “reinvest every single penny, £36 billion, in hundreds of new transport projects in the North and the Midlands, across the country”.
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen tells TalkTV’s Julia Hartley-Brewer that “scrapping the white elephant that is HS2 is a good idea.”
He adds: “In Teeside we are going to be getting £978 million... that’s real money that's going to deliver real outcomes for local people.”
#talktv #talkradio #hs2 #railway #trains
Wow im impressed 🇬🇧🙏
Nice cup of tea 🍵
All the land being dug up😉😉
Should have been scrapped years ago.
Reform UK save our kand🙏🇬🇧😉
Why did they start it then .
Its not rocket science 🤠
Disgusting😢😢
do people still travel on trains?
Certainly not our hypocritical carbon baulking Prime minister who would fly from Downing Street to Parliament if he could along with his tax dodging wife..
Corrupt khan😂😂
to all the non smokers , non smokers still die, still end up usually in the NHS costing money, tend to live longer, therefore take more out of the state via pensions and geriatric care.
it's those 80 years old that cost the nation money, we need to adopt Logan's run methods
what evidence is there they live longer. Average age for males is in the 70's, females 80's, whether you smoke or not.
@@zaftra according to the NHS, Bupa smoking reduces life expectancy by 10 years.
Hey my Grandparents smoked all their lives, lived to their 80's, my father gave up when he was in his 20, died before 80.
I think it's a given that smoking does reduce life expectancy, of course you get those who smoke in their 90's , but generally speaking it does shorten it.
Therefore as a group, smokers spend less time in that retirement age , i.e not paying taxes, receiving pension.
Think about it this way, everyone dies of something and if you die of cancer at 90 due to just getting or 70 because of smoking. It costs the same, but the 90 year also had 20 years of extra costs over the 70 year old.
So overall Smokers cost a country less than a the group who doesn't, they don't receive as many years of pension or NHS treatments.
Add to that Smokers pay a lot of tax via Cigarettes, that outweighs their health cost
@@davidrenton They also say smoking CAUSES cancer, it technically does not, it increase the genetic damage that can lead to cancer. This is why most people who smoke or have done don't get cancer, wereas a severe alcoholic will get cirrhosis.
@@zaftra i'm just saying that smoking on average reduces life expectancy, which it does. That's hardly controversial
@@davidrenton That claim is impossible to make. Just becasue somebody dies who smokes, does not mean that it was the smoking that killed them. Think of COVID.
Even so about a third in the study below found about a third who smokes had a disease you could blame on smoking, nowadays people are trying to claim it's two thirds this is plain hogwash they are just hanging everything on smoking they can becasue they can, like with covid.
Is smoking bad for you? it's both good and bad, can it contribute to cancers and so on, yes, is it best not to smoke, yes (I don't), but lets not be lazy about it.
From the national library of medicine national centre for biotechnology
:What are the odds that smoking will kill you?
M E Mattson, E S Pollack, and J W Cullen
Abstract
We calculated the long-term risks of death from smoking for individuals of various ages and smoking status in terms of the excess mortality contributed by smoking, over and above the baseline mortality from the same diseases caused by factors other than smoking using standard life table procedures. Since mortality data for specific smoking categories were available only from prospective studies in the late 1950s, we scaled these to the 1982 mortality levels. We assumed, for lung cancer, that the death rates for nonsmokers have not changed and, for other smoking-related diseases, that the risks of death for smokers relative to those for nonsmokers have not changed since the 1950s. Probabilities that result from alternative assumptions were also investigated and are presented. As many as one-third of heavy smokers age 35 will die before age 85 of diseases caused by their smoking. The probabilities of death from smoking when compared with other causes may be persuasive as public education tools. Their effective use for this purpose is affected not only by the deficiencies in the public's factual knowledge of the magnitude of the risks from smoking, but also by numerous apparent misconceptions relating to the interpretation of risk information. Risk data should be presented to the public in a manner that clarifies these misconceptions and facilitates their understanding of the overwhelming risk imposed by smoking."
A good decision 100 billion + what a waste of money just to get to Manchester 1 hour quicker who wants to go to Manchester anyway???
😂😂😂 the new projects he announced won't be finished for less than 5 -10yrs. Election is next year. The promise is not worth the paper it's written on.
Who wants to go to London????
Mr Teesside.
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